This Is Your Country On Drugs:The Secret History of Getting High in America

Buford C. Terrell Controlled substances laws and their consequences have been the center of my professional life for over fifteen years. I host a public interest television program in Houston, “Drugs, ...

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. -- PAUL GALLICO

Democrats say the McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1945 has granted the insurance industry a captive market with no curbs on price-fixing and other anti-competitive practices. Last week the Justice Department"s top antitrust regulator, Christine Varney, voiced support for a repeal. ...

When Ryan Grim wrote a Slate piece in April 2004 about the disappearance of LSD from the recreational drug scene, he envisioned it as a standalone observation of an interesting but mostly trivial phenomenon. ...

Vacation let me catch up on back issues of the National Review.The Sept 21 issue is filled with interesting articles, like Kyle Smith's review of Ryan Grim's book, This Is Your Country on Drugs.

In the debate over the PATRIOT Act, the Bush White House insisted it needed the authority to search people's homes without their permission or knowledge so that terrorists wouldn't be tipped off that they're under investigation.

The Federal Reserve, through its extensive network of consultants, visiting scholars, alumni and staff economists, so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of the central bank ...